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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.

Igor Stravinsky

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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Best Children Music Understand
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Artist Oneself Simplicity Truffle
The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
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Artist Creation Gift Hands Observation Talent
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Hurry Myself Time
An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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Abstraction Audience Person Taste
It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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Feeling Generation Nature Way
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
The profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.
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Essential Man Meaning Unity
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
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Criticism Day Dreams Music Painting Small
Revolution means turning the wheel.
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One Liner Revolution
One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
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Belief Dangerous Oneself Right Sincere
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal

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